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The podium of 12^th Start Cup Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta is dominated by the Business Incubator of the University of Turin 2I3T:

• Panoxyvir ranks first. It is an antiviral nasal spray that can prevent and treat colds with the innovative use of oxysterols, physiological molecules that derive from the enzymatic oxidation of cholesterol. The project was developed by David Lembo, Laboratory director of molecular Virology and antiviral Research – Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences of Orbassano; Giuseppe Poli, Laboratory director of Pathology – Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences of Orbassano; together with the two PhDs who have contributed to the discovery: Andrea Civra, PhD, a virologist, currently postdoc at the University of Turin and Valeria Cagno, PhD, virologist, currently a bursar at the University of Geneva.
• The Second place goes to the R3Cube project, a professional appliance, meant for small healthcare professionals (dentists, veterinarians, etc.), that, thanks to a patented technology, sterilizes and compacts hazardous waste at the place and at the same time as professionals produce it, turning it into fuel rich in energy.The fourth place belongs to the
• NIB Biotec, a research project conducted by the Laboratory of Immunology of cancers of CeRMS, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino (City of Health and of Science of Turin), that developed methods and tools to optimize the screening of prostate cancer and reduce unnecessary biopsies.

The City of Turin is one of the winners of the announcement Urban Innovative Actions (UIA): 4 million 100 thousand euros have been allocated by the European Union for the project of Turin CO-CITY, for care, shared management and regeneration of urban commons, achieved by the offices of the City with the University of Turin, the ANCI and the Cascina Roccafranca Foundation.

“This award confirms Turin as European Capital of Social Innovation: Co-City is an extraordinary opportunity to support new forms of active participation of citizens to the care and regeneration of the territory“, said the mayor Chiara Appendino.

The University of Turin will have to create a legal model based on the collaboration between citizens and public administration and to coordinate the urban regeneration policies starting from the shared management of common goods, through the use of the platform ‘FirstLife’.

It is a social network that “allows citizens who don’t necessarily know each other but live the same urban spaces to coordinate themselves through an interactive map of the city to co-produce new services in an era in which public resources are shrinking“.

The University of Turin also will test a local currency and a bank of time based on innovative technologies such as blockchain, which is the basis of cryptocurrency such as bitcoin, converting them from a financial use to a social use.

The MotoStudent competition is a competition in which the best motorcycle prototypes take part. These prototypes have been designed and built by college students from around the world.

This year the competition was held in the Motorland Aragon Circuit in Alcaniz in Spain. While last years 2WheelsPoliTO team had won for two consecutive editions the MS1 phase, which concerns the design, this year the team of Politecnico di Torino won the MS2 stage (race track and dynamic tests).The bike, which has been entirely designed by students of the University with the support of the partner companies, has innovative features including the fully bonded frame, which can impart a significantly reduced weight.

For photos, results and information, the Facebook page of the Team:

https://www.facebook.com/2WheelsPoliTO/

The University of Turin and the University of Milan manage together the Phd of Sociology and Methodology of Social Research, which is a theoretical-analytical and technical-methodological preparation that aims to train researchers who will be able to analyse the processes of contemporary social and cultural change.

Cardano explains: “The idea of ​​creating an inter-university PhD comes from the limits on the number of scolarships required to create a doctorate inside a department. There are two possible ways: we can create inter-disciplinary Phds that put together sociologists and philosophers, historians, political scientists. Or we can reach the critical size to start a course putting together more universities, opting in this case for a more specific field “.

The course will be only in English, to allow access to the doctorate also to foreign students so that they can fit the learning content in an international context. Moreover only students with a master’s degree and a good knowledge of English can enrol in the courses.

The Competence Centre for Scientific Computing (C3S) of the University of Turin has been presented in the Lecture Hall of Campus Luigi Einaudi.

The Centre aims to support scientific research of the Departments of the INFN – National Institute of Nuclear Physics – section of Turin and of businesses in the area, so that they can access computing resources that will accelerate their ability to innovation.

All this will be possible thanks to the Open Computing Cluster for Advanced data Manipulation (OCCAM), the supercomputer that has been designed to meet the needs of calculation of different fields from Big Data to genomics, from biology to chemistry, from medicine to humanistic social science.

Biosphera 2.0 is an experimental research project that involves different study centers: Aktivhaus, the Department of Architecture and Design at the Politecnico di Torino, the University of Valle d’Aosta, ZEPHIR – Italian Passivhaus, Minergie and PEFC.

Biosphera 2.0 is the home of the future. It’s a house of 25 square meters that has been and will be hosted from February 2016 to February 2017 by 6 location: Courmayeur, Aosta, Milan, Riccione, Turin and Lugano. You have twelve months to live a house on a human scale, built with the best available technologies. This house can produce independently all the energy you need to live: LED lighting, induction cooking, household appliances, heating and cooling, divided into living area , sleeping area, bathroom and technical plant.

The living module has arrived in Turin and it has been installed at the Politecnico di Torino, in Via Pier Carlo Boggio 59, where it will remain until 15 November 2016. The official opening of the module is scheduled for 18^th October 2016 at 2.30 pm at the Sala Agorà of the Incubator of Innovative Enterprises I3P, in Via Pier Carlo Boggio 59.